Born in Prague, but raised in Vancouver, and fluent in Czech, David started early as an actor. Graduating from UBC in English Literature and Theatre, he has since featured in several key B.C. based series: ‘Arrow’, ‘Supernatural’, ‘Stargate Atlantis’–after returning from Czechoslovakia in the 2000s in Prague and Vancouver. During a shoot as a lead in HBO Europe’s ‘Sleepers’ this past winter in a return to Prague, he found himself in Amazon’s ‘Carnival Row’

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Prague; David arrived in Canada with his parents at the age of two, after the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia. The Nykls arrived in Victoria, BC where his father soon found work as a Structural Engineer and his mother as a Nurse.

David started early as an actor: theatre, small TV parts, tap dance classes, piano lessons and community theatre. He attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, from which he graduated with a bachelor degree in English Literature and Theatre. After graduation he worked for several years in the Vancouver Theatre world and initiated a small collective known as Ironworks Productions, derived from a group of friends from Bard on the Beach. Ironworks toured Europe with its production of “Waiting for Godot”.

Returning to Prague in the 1990’s in the aftermath of the Velvet Revolution, David co-founded Prague’s English Language theatre company: Misery Loves Company. He was involved in over seventeen productions – as actor, director, producer, and artistic director. He also appeared in several made-in-Prague Hollywood projects.

Since his return to Vancouver, David has appeared in dozens of film and TV projects including Arrow, now in its 7th and final season, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, Fringe, Eureka, and Continuum. He has reunited with Arrow creator Marc Guggenehim for the latter’s Amazon series Carnival Row, and recently completed filming as a lead in the HBO Europe espionage thriller limited -series “The Sleepers”, which completed shooting after 85 days at the end of January. “The Sleepers” is due to broadcast in tandem with the 30th anniversary of The Velvet Revolution in November 2019.